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Show SPIRIT "oFJTriE: PRESS. In Fr TraiU B.lglum. New York I'rttsd. We bave now Wore us In tbe London Lon-don Times of Jnnei!, n official report ou the condition of the working classes in Belgium, which we respectfully commend com-mend to tho American friends of free trado. This official report says that, in HrusBolH, "the average daily wage of a working man is 3f. 13o. The in. come of a working man apart from bis daily wace is nil. Some few work'ng-men's work'ng-men's family enjov an income apart from wage earning. This income averages av-erages reutim.s a day. Of the 19,24 working class families in Brussels, 10,-p;i! 10,-p;i! have occasional recourse to public charity, while 88J2 are independent of such aid." Pattlsoa's Ch.noM. Omaha liee. It is reported from Xew York that a strong movement has been started to make Governor Pattison of Pennsylvania Pennsylva-nia tho democratic candidate for president presi-dent next year. It is said to have originated within the wigwam of Tammany Tam-many hall, and if this should bo verified it would be likely to give Mr. Pattison a good deal of a boom, because it would put Cleveland and HiM out of tho tieid so far as N.w York is concerned. Home time ago Pennsylvania's governor waa ipiite freely talked of as a possible candidate, can-didate, anil he is a man by no moans to bo thought lighilv of in that connection. Oihermen are being talked of who have less availability. Ia I..pa ltsipuaslMIIty. San Krauelsco Chronicle. The prosecution of De Lesseps for t . t i . t.i - Al n . rtf tin irauii woum do an iguumv cuum great engineer's career, yet if all be true that has been printed about the moustrous waste of funds contributed by the French people he certainly ought to suffer. As the bead of the Panama Canal company it was his business to kxep a sharp eye upon the management, manage-ment, lie not only failed in this, but he actually misrepresented the condition condi-tion of stiairs when the last loan was called for. The savings of an army of poor French work'ng people were thus lost as utterly as though their coin bad been cast into the sea. K Virginia Swindls, I'et'irsbnrtf Imlex Appeal idem). Every well-informed man. Including Mr. Cleveland himself, knows that, though he received theeloctoral vote of Virginia, he lost the state on a fair and square deal a state that is democratic ordinarily by 40,000 majority. Now, if Mr. Clevelaud lost the state on a fair and square deal in 18SS, and is now opposed by th ablest democratic leaders in the state and by the masses as represented by the farmers' alliance and a great mafcj-others who are not alliance men, where in the name of all the mysteries is bisstrength in Virginia. Cunplull as a C.uduUtt. St. Louis Globe Democrat. If Governor Campbell secures a reelection re-election he will be the most conspicuous figure in the democratic national convention con-vention of ISM. Neither Hill nor Cleveland will then have any chance to gain tho nomination. Gorman, Gray and all the others who have been mentioned men-tioned in connection with the candidacy will instantly be relegated to tho list of impossibilities. There will be no opportunity op-portunity for any dark horses or for a stampede of tho convention in favor of any local or sectional favorite. The Middle Clans Mad. Doaton Globe. ' Tlie middle classes of England are "inad clear through" with Wales, and it is the middle classes that rule Eug-land Eug-land as with a rod of iron. Whenever they make up their minds to do a thing it will be done because they have the power. It' they got angry enough to stand from under" down goes the throne, and the nobility along with it if it knows no better than to repeat its fol'y of Charles the First's day. Touch., m Tender pot. Cleveland Li ailer, .Such incidents, as the sending back to Kuropo at the expense of the steamship companies, of twenty-three immigrants in one day, which was dune ou Thursday Thurs-day at New York, will surely abate the ardor of the transAllantic lines in drumming drum-ming up steerage passengers from the slums of Kurope. It interferes with proiits and touches these corporations I in a very tender spot. A I il lomatlo llttitle. t'ittHmrs Comn.urcial Gazette. The speed with which the closed season sea-son for suaimg was agreed upon by the United States aud Great llritaiu was unprecedented. James (i. Maine is a diplomatic hustler. Tue cloned season nTi-cement is an earnest, too, of an amicable sett, en ent before long of the Hehnng seaquestion in dispute between tiroat llritain and the United States. |